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Xring
Posted on Friday, March 04, 2005 - 03:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Just about finished.
Chopped tail

Like some of you guys suggested, I cut the extra metal off with a hacksaw, then used an angle grinder with a 60-grit flap wheel to grind down the ribs on the bottom and contour to suit. Scuffed it up, primed and painted with a rattle can; I'll either polish it or get it powder coated this spring.

Cut and welded a license plate/turn signal bracket, too.

That is frost on the sides of the frame...it was in the single digits here last night.

Thanks for the help,
Bill
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Wheelsleaning
Posted on Friday, March 04, 2005 - 04:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Was worried you went nuts with a grinder on the fuell tank.
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U4euh
Posted on Friday, March 04, 2005 - 04:45 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

You might need to get some knobby's!
Take some close ups, hard to see details, but I like the position of the turn sigs. Do they vibrate very much?
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Xring
Posted on Friday, March 04, 2005 - 06:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Not knobbies, but some Scorpion Sync's, maybe. I only got the bike muddy pushing into the storage shed. We've been soaked for weeks.

I haven't even started the bike since getting the tail/bracket fitted, so don't know how it will behave. I do all my projects by trial and error, so it I need to change it, I will.


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